Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 2 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 3 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 4 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 5 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 6 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 7 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 8 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 9 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 10 | He was held in a reclining position by his seat-belt , with his head bent back and his mouth open , his eyes staring up at the roof of the car , his right arm hanging straight down , his left snagged on the gear-stick . |
| 11 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 12 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 13 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 14 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 15 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 16 | As Britain 's biggest book printer , his eyes light up at the mention of Labour 's proposals for an extra £10 per primary school child for books . |
| 17 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 18 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 19 | Every night while the white kids queue up at the teen club Todd 's , or the new romantic Taboo , the black kids flock to the Music Institute for a dose of blinding strobes and pure , hard techno . |
| 20 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 21 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 22 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 23 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 24 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 25 | Football specials lined up at the Pleasure Beach loop on 22 November 1980 , during a cup-tie match between Blackpool and Fleetwood . |
| 26 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 27 | Erm now er just just Philip just correct me er on the on the detail of this thing , er individuals pitch up at the tent , collect the collect the instructions |
| 28 | For example , when troubles blew up at the Heath Town Estate in the Midlands they were immediately compared with Broadwater Farm and the place labelled a ghetto in the way the media treated the incident . |
| 29 | Well , the speedway season is upon us ; tapes go up at the Oxford Stadium on Friday . |
| 30 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |